Indie
SXSW Film Review – Easy Living
Easy Living is really a misnomer for the current status of Sherry Graham (Caroline Dhavernas). She is a door-to-door makeup saleswoman, like Mary Kay. She visits people’s homes and sells her wares, usually unannounced. She is doing a decent job of it, and conducts herself professionally. It…
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Film Review – Raw
Julia Ducournau’s French/Belgian horror film Raw reinterprets the emotional and physical strains of post-adolescents into a grisly genre masterwork. Within her gory exploration of common coming-of-age tropes, such as peer group hierarchies, the awkward discovery of sexuality and the love/hate whirlwind of sibling rivalry, Ducournau…
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SXSW Film Review – Lucky
One of the more independent films I saw at SXSW was Lucky. There was already buzz about the film due to Harry Dean Stanton’s involvement and actor John Carroll Lynch’s first time as a director. The film had its world premiere at SXSW.
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SXSW Film Review – Most Beautiful Island
With all the talk about illegal immigration and homeland security these days, it’s hard to remember that many undocumented travelers come to the United States with pure intentions. This has always been a country of promise, where people from all over the world can escape…
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SXSW Film Review – Song of Granite
Joe Heaney was an Irish singer who specialized in traditional Irish folk music. Born in 1919, Heaney was shy at a young age. He started singing at five years old but did not sing in public until he was twenty. However, he developed a keen…
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SXSW Film Review – Us and Them
Us and Them (2017) starts out seemingly as a biting satire about class warfare. You know the story: a person of low economic stature feeling like they got the short shrift out of life butting heads against a rich person who savors all the privileges…
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Blu-Ray Review – Black Girl
Ousmane Sembène is considered by many to be the father of African cinema. A political activist, author, and filmmaker, the Senegalese Sembène made it his life’s mission to tell distinct African stories without white European influence (Senegal was once a French occupied territory). In collaboration…
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Film Review – Things to Come
Isabelle Huppert brilliantly holds together Things to Come a confounding yet still fascinating film. Director Mia Hansen-Løve has a style that is hard to pin down. She likes to create as much real life as she can in her films that sometimes leads to me…
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